v.收回；回收；糾正；開墾

After he stopped paying the hire purchase installment, the finance company tried to reclaim his car. 在他停止支付租購分期付款后，該金融公司試圖收回他的汽車。

You may be entitled to reclaim some of the tax you paid last year. 你或許有權(quán)要求退回去年你交付的部分稅金。

Their daily work is to reclaim rubber from old tyres. 他們的日常工作是用舊輪胎再生橡膠。

It is incumbent on me to reclaim him. 勸他改過是我義不容辭的義務(wù)。

Her mission was to reclaim former criminals. 她的任務(wù)是感化過去的罪犯。

This land was reclaimed from the sea. 這塊土地是填海開墾出來的。

reclaim的基本意思是“開墾”“墾殖”,指通過努力把荒蕪的土地和惡劣的環(huán)境進(jìn)行改造,使其有用處或變得更好,引申可表示“改造(人)”“改正(某種錯(cuò)誤)”,即對(duì)偏離了正軌的人、罪人、惡棍或墮落者進(jìn)行改造使其成為正派的、講道德的人。reclaim還可作“收回”解,可指取回臨時(shí)寄存的物品,也可指從廢棄物品中回收有用的東西。

reclaim是及物動(dòng)詞,接名詞或代詞作賓語。